IAC NEWS & EVENTS

“I want to be able to be there to help if they need me.” Editor’s Note: Standard-Times staff reporter Aimee Chiavaroli recently spent a day at New Bedford’s Immigrants’ Assistance Center, observing the services it provides and talking with some of the staff and people...

Portugal viola as regras do programa de isenção de vistos para entrada nos EUA (Visa Waiver Program) há vários anos e pode ser eliminado do programa, segundo as regras do Departamento de Estado norte-americano. As regras do programa, estabelecidas na Lei de Imigração...

NEW BEDFORD — The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status for people from El Salvador, a decision that affects Bristol County’s second-largest Central American community. Helena DaSilva Hughes, executive director of the Immigrants’ Assistance Center...

Helena Hughes, executive director of the Immigrants’ AssistanceCenter in New Bedford, says her office has received an unprecedented number of calls from Portuguese families whose loved ones have overstayed their visas and were picked up by Immigration authorities in...

Dear Friends of the Immigrants Assistance Center, The Immigrants’ Assistance Center was established in 1971 as a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization with the stated mission to “help immigrants overcome language, cultural and economic barriers, and integrate into the...

For the seventh consecutive year, members of the New Bedford chapter of the Portuguese American Police Association are donating turkeys along with all the Thanksgiving trimmings to the Immigrant Assistance Association at Casa da Soudade on Crapo Street for needy...